This book was a pretty insightful read that suggests exactly what you're thinking. Part of Steve Bannon's rise was through illegal gold farming operations. He realized that angry gamers on forums were a force waiting to be exploited.
Dude, I wish. Reddit is the 9th most popular site in America and the 26th most popular globally. It's wishful thinking to believe that a site has no cultural relevance when it is more popular than Netflix, and 3rd in social media behind facebook and twitter.
I'd agree reddit doesn't necessarily define culture, but it definitely reflects it for more than one demographic.
Why would Assange be tortured? Thats just another propaganda piece by the Assange/Wikileaks propaganda team. The government already knows how Assange got/gets the documents. Hell, the government itself cant even agree about how they would deal with Assange. Theres also the fact that they've made very few attempts to even try to extradite him.
That being said, dudes a creep. I remember his okcupid profile when that first came to light. Dudes a creepy as fuck narcissist.
That's not the point of the show.
Read into existentialism, like actually read into it. I'll give you my favorite existentialist book, Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl. It's not some dense philosophy text. It's Viktor Frankl's, a psychiatrist by profession, personal account of the Holocaust. It isn't written exactly chronologically, but it looks at individual moments and how it shaped his thinking. From when he ran therapy for the other prisoners, to watching prisoners die in the infirmary, to seeing them shot while they are running to the next concentration camp.
The point is that in order to survive such horrors, in Frankl's case it was the Holocaust and in R&M it's the uncaring multiverse, we must create/find our own meaning to exist. Beth, Morty, Summer, even Jerry all have each other and their lives to give them meaning. Rick does not. He, foolishly, rejects meaning and brings harm to himself and those he claims to love.
You are also misreading your fucking Nietzsche but I'll let someone else explain him to you.
Haes is a fucking bogeyman.
Here's reddit's take on it /r/haes it's a squatted sub with fph content.
Oh and here's /r/fatacceptance which maybe started with good intentions but is now fph content and downvoted on topic content.
/r/fatpeoplelove features such gems from the creator as "how anyone can lose weight- eat less".
/r/HealthyFatPeople is one of those submission restricted "there's nothing here" jokes and links to fph in the sidebar.
In short I'm pretty sure that there is not a gathering place on reddit for anything fat related that isn't dehumanization let alone acceptance and sure as shit not promotion.
Btw, lest you think I'm picking on reddit, this is the tumblr search for haes. https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/haes you know, tumblr, famed land of anything redditors hate. I don't have to take screenshots because whatever time you look at it the anti haes will out post the haes.
> The mainstream right has always been fine with hating "THOSE people", especially if doing so gets them votes. But they just ask that their members aren't too open about it. In the mainstream right you have to pull a Reagan, and say that its really about welfare and big government creating dependency.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N---, n---, n---.” By 1968 you can't say “n---” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N---, n---.” -- Lee Atwater, 1981
“N---, n---, n---.” -- Alt Right, today
According to Alexa, 3.5% of visitors to reddit are connecting from the UK and according to reddit's own stats, reddit received 159,627,929 unique visitors last month, which means over 5 and a half million people who visited reddit last month were from the UK. I'm not sure about the lurker to poster ratio, but I think we can safely assume that the relatively few incidents of British slang are probably coming from actual British people.
And even if they weren't, I'm curious as to why anyone would care.
I mean, you can put those words in my mouth or you can read the write-up I made regarding the subject and see what backs up my view
Here's an article about the way Sarkeesian is using the term "sexism":
Actually, you can be racist against white people.
There's more than one definition of racism & sexism, and feminists tend to use the "systemic" definition. It's still a dumb argument because there is such a thing as individual -ism against privileged people, but that's what they mean.
You should be able to order them all online. Just be sure to get the original Hewlett and Martin ones prior to the film coming out (as there were a load of shitty knock-offs following that). They were initially done for Deadline magazine and, if you can find the originals of those, are probably worth quite a bit.
I think this might be the original and a good place to start (not sure what the score on Amazon links here is, so apologies in advance for any rules broken).
I'll provide you with the evidence. Look at Chile under Allende and then under Pinochet. Pinochet, supported by Milton Friedman and the University of Chicago's Economics Department, pursued a radical campaign of privatization and free market policies, in addition to his murderous exploits. It completely upended the economy, caused unemployment to rise drastically, and threw many people into serious poverty. This was also true when the Soviet Union collapsed and many internal and external forces sold off state functions to private oligarchs. The Shock Doctrine
weren't working class white people the ones who voted for him the most tho?
>if anyone here knows any good alternatives to that sub, they could post them here
Hardly anything new. On a side note I'm reading a The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and she talks about how we overthrew Allende in Chile and installed Pinochet, who was a good friend of Milton Friedman. Just makes my blood boil at how this country pretends it's a land of freedom and a beacon of light while the CIA is knocking down democratically elected leaders left and right at the behest of big corporations. Don't even get me started on Guatemala, a coup brought to you by the United Fruit Company.
If you're really interested in it, this book is a good one. It's written by Mike Brown, whose team discovered Eris, another dwarf planet that turned out to be bigger than Pluto.
Basically, people who insist that Pluto is still a planet are taking a big old dump on his life's work.
>But we need a very clear understanding of the human brain first.
No, that is in fact not necessary. I'd recommend reading Superintelligence.
There's actually a good reason why some of the smartest people alive are starting to raise their concerns.
>But the whole singularity thing is bullshit. Why would machines kill us all?
Why wouldn't they? You're acting as if strong AI will have motivations that can be understood by normal humans. One of the major concerns is that strong AI will be fundamentally unpredictable.